Dr. Sabnam Ghosh is a Ph.D. graduate from Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, Class of 2020. Sabnam is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Studies at the Department of English at Fairfield University. She is a former lecturer in English at Kennesaw State University. Her main areas of research include Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Diaspora and Migration studies, South Asian Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Disability Studies, and World Literature.

After teaching at The Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Wenbo Chang is a lecturer of Chinese language and literature in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia. Her primary research area is premodern Chinese drama, its role as a potent intermediary between popular and elite cultures, and its intersection with ritual, power, gender, and cultural studies. Her research interests also include intellectual history, religious studies, and narrative of the strange. Besides her research, Wenbo is dedicated to Chinese language pedagogy and technology, with decade-long experience of teaching Chinese language at all proficiency levels. 

Selected Publications:

Guo Yingde, Wenbo Chang, Patricia Sieber and Xiaohui Zhang, ed. How To Read Chinese Drama in Chinese: A Language Companion. Columbia University Press (2023). 

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/how-to-read-chinese-drama-in-chinese/9780231209571 

Wenbo Chang. “Performing the Role of Playwright: Jia Zhongming’s sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts.” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, volume 8:1 (2021): 59-88.   

Abinash is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, Athens. His research explores theories of mysticism with a particular focus on Christian and Hindu mystical traditions in South Asia between the 16th and 18th centuries. Centering his inquiry on the region of Odisha, he examines how devotees in both traditions articulated their spiritual experiences and negotiated their religious identities through their self-representation.

His broader research interests include autobiography studies and literary historiography, through which he investigates how individual and collective narratives of devotion are constructed, archived, and interpreted. He is also critically engaged with how colonial, orientalist, and Western epistemologies have shaped the reception, representation, and circulation of mystical texts and traditions.

Working across Hindi, Odia, Bangla, and Sanskrit, he  brings a multilingual and interdisciplinary approach to his study, contributing to broader conversations in comparative mysticism, theology, and intercultural religious studies.

Yi Zhong is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and International Studies at the University of Georgia. She received her BA and MA in Chinese Language and Literature from Sichuan University in China. Her research focuses on the relationship between Buddhism and Chinese literature. Her dissertation examines the influence of Buddhist thought on classical Chinese narratives, with particular attention to dreams and dream narratives. She also studies Sanskrit and is interested in the connections between early Indian texts, such as the Rig Veda, and Buddhist literature.